cribbage

Speech parts

1. cribbage - Noun

2. cribbage - Verb

Meaning

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

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Florence enjoyed canning, freezing and preserving vegetables and fruits, was a wonderful seamstress and embroiderer, enjoyed reading and crossword puzzles, and had a definite passion for the game of cribbage. Source: Internet

She touched the hearts of everyone she met and will be remembered for her kindness, patience, love, faithfulness and who could forget Grandma’s Cookie Jar, her Friday night pot roasts, her gorilla hugs and cribbage (she was a card shark!). Source: Internet

We spent what seemed like hours playing card games – war, cribbage, gin and gin rummy, hearts and spit. Source: Internet

She enjoyed her scratch tickets, played cribbage in the Wabigoon Lake tournaments and at the Metis Centre. Source: Internet

His passion was playing cribbage, joining area cribbage clubs and serving as club president. Source: Internet

Pubs and car games have been synonymous for centuries, and the doyen of them was and is cribbage, probably invented in the 1630s by the poet Sir John Suckling, who was the son of a Norwich MP. Source: Internet

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